Lottie Dora Bembrick

Lottie Dora Midson was born in 1885 and married Robert Stanley Bembrick, a farmer and grazier, in 1914. Lottie was called "Jack" all her life. Family lore says that her father was desperate for a boy after four girls and expected that Jack would be the next to arrive. He called her Jack anyway and she was known by this name to many family members. She had a particular interest in the orchard at "Chesterfield" Grenfell where she lived, drying and preserving fruit, making jams, and storing nuts like a true squirrel., nothing being allowed to waste. She retained a strong interest in music all her life and used to play the piano and organ with or without music and sang for recreation as a form of worship. She had a sense of the presence of God as she lived alone at Chesterfield after Robert died, following a long illness caused by Hydatids of the liver.

When Lottie and Robert were first married they had a four wheel buggy pulled by a horse named "Bell" and in 1922 they bought a Buick 4, then an Essex sedan and a Ford V8 sedan. In 1939 a grey Mercury was purchased and used right up to the time of Robert's death and by the family afterwards. An "A" model Ford truck was used on the farm and was used to carry 36 bags of "Ford" wheat to the Wirega Silo, this being the first load to be received when the silo opened. The silo is situated in front of the Chesterfield house alongside the railway line. The main products of the farm were wheat and sheep. Both Lottie and Robert were keen Methodists, being involved in both the Grenfell and Greenethorpe Churches. Robert Bembrick held the firm conviction that Christianity meant helping those in distress and poverty and was a liberal anonymous giver all of his life.